单词 | non-earning |
释义 | non-earningadj. Of an asset: not yielding a financial return; (of a person) not earning a regular income. ΚΠ 1900 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 14 157 The machinery for rapid loading and unloading reduces to the shortest the non-earning time of lying at the docks. 1933 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 41 517 Any excess balance above the legal reserve requirement constitutes waste in the form of unnecessarily large non-earning cash accounts. 1959 F. E. Norton & N. H. Jacoby Bank Deposits & Legal Reserve Requirements iii. 41 For the individual bank, legal reserves represent non-earning assets. 1996 Sunday Times (Electronic ed.) 8 Sept. Although a non-earning divorced woman may have somewhere to live, she often has no income in old age. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1900 |
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